English Socialist Party

The English Socialist Party (Ingsoc) was a Stalinist political party in the United Kingdom which was formed at the start of the Cold War. The party was formed as a satellite of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which, at the time, was headed by Joseph Stalin. The English Socialist Party's ideology was modelled after Stalin's own ideology, supporting oligarchical collectivism and rejecting and vilifying every principle for which the socialist movement originally stood in the name of socialism. The party advocated for a revolution against the British government, for the replacement of the Standard English language with "Newspeak" to simplify and modify language rules, for a strong military, for the restructuring of society along party lines (the "inner party" dominating society, followed by the "outer party", and then by the remaining 85%, the proletariat, or "proles"), for the formation of a Thought Police to arrest dissenters, and for the creation of a new surveillance system ("Big Brother") to monitor every citizen. The party failed to gain much popularity due to its authoritarian views and the decline of Stalinism in the late 1950s, and it gradually disappeared due to its failure to achieve its goals.